All Chapters of SCENTBOUND: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

65 Chapters

Chapter 51 - The Informant's call

LUCIEN POVThe call came in early this morning.I had not been asleep since the security alert pulled Rian to the east wing.The room remained dark except for the thin silver wash of moonlight across the floor.I sat in the armchair beside the window, wrapped in Rian's discarded robe, one hand braced beneath my belly and the other resting on the locked drawer's handle.On the small table beside me, the encrypted device vibrated.My body went still.Marcus never called unless the information could not be written.The device vibrated again.I picked it up."Marcus."There was no immediate response.Only static, faint breathing, then the low voice of a man who sounded as if he aged ten years in one night."Lock the room."I rose carefully and locked the door then came back to sit."Done," I said."Any active household system?""They are muted."Marcus exhaled. "Good, this conversation never happened."Cold crept under my skin. "Can you talk now?""Damien Voss is not simply connected, he

Chapter 52 - The Betrayal Within

LUCIEN POV"Lucien open the door." Rian said. "Please."I moved and opened the door.I stood before Rian with everything I just heard burning behind my teeth.The hallway smelled of cedar, winter rain and Eingma terror sharpened into restraint. Rian's pheromones filled the space around us,not crushing.His eyes searched my face looking at the tear tracks, the tremor in my hands."What happened?" Rian asked, voice low.I could have told him everything then.Everything waited, lined up like knives. Rian deserved to know, yet the moment I opened my mouth, a contraction of dread tightened my lower back and wrapped around my abdomen, slow and punishing.Pain stole my breath.Rian moved instantly, one hand at my waist, the other cupping the side of my face. "Pain?"I gripped Rian's wrist until the wave loosened. "A little."I leaned into him, because resisting would have been impossible. Rian's body was warm and solid, a fortress built from rage and devotion."Were you crying?" Rian asked.

Chapter 53 - The Trap Is Set

LUCIEN POVBy late afternoon,Theo placed Aria in a cream-colored bassinet beside the couch, but the bassinet had become mostly ceremonial within minutes of arrival. No one seemed capable of leaving the baby inside it for long.Kael had lifted her first, claiming she had "clearly requested him." Theo had rolled his eyes and reminded him that Aria had been asleep.Then Aria sneezed. Every person in the room had reacted as if she had delivered a speech.Kael clutched his chest. "Brilliant."Theo snorted. "She sneezed.""It's still something at least." Kael said. "She is awake."Theo glanced over. "She's still sleeping."Aria opened one eye."Kael lowered his voice. "She gets this from you, Theo."Theo pointed at him without looking away from the baby. "Careful, it's only been eleven days and recovery has not made me merciful."Rian's mouth curved.It was faint but I saw it.Kael turned to Rian. "Why don't you hold her."Rian's expression closed at once. "No."Theo smiled sweetly. "Yes."

Chapter 54 - The Meeting

LUCIEN POVI watched through the tinted car window, one gloved hand braced beneath the weight of my belly.The baby had been restless since the estate gates vanished behind me.The driver slowed near a block of shuttered freight offices. "This is the place."I looked ahead.Black Dog Coffee occupied the ground floor of an old brick building squeezed between a sealed machine shop and a warehouse with its upper windows painted black.The surrounding street was nearly empty.A white delivery van sat at the far curb with no driver visible.I opened the car door.Cold struck immediately, sharp enough to slip under my scarf and bite through the scent blocker rubbed along my throat. The blocker made my skin itch and flattened my Alpha scent into something dull.Every preparation felt small against the emptiness around me.I paid the driver, stepped onto the pavement, and waited until the car pulled away before moving toward the coffee house.A faint scent drifted from the alley: wet cardboar

Chapter 55 - Eli's confession

LUCIEN POVThe words struck harder than I expected.He's not my brother, he's an orphan who ruined my life.I had prepared for the worst, but hatred shaped by pain carried a different scent, even under blockers.Across the table, Eli's face remained cold, but his eyes had changed. There was something unstable that began to rise, resentment, grief, shame sharpened into a weapon because the alternative was collapse.I kept both hands on the table, but under the booth, my body betrayed me.The contraction that had begun in my back tightened slowly, circling the front of my belly with a low, grinding force.I kept my body steady, so Eli won't notice."Rian was a child," I said."So was I."The answer came too fast.Eli's jaw flexed, and for one heartbeat he looked fifteen again beneath the polished bitterness: thin, defensive, desperate not to be seen needing anything.I didn't speak.But Eli kept talking."I was fifteen," Eli said. "Sick constantly, my lungs burned when the weather chang

Chapter 56 - The Price Of Belonging

LUCIEN POVEli leaned back."After I left," Eli said, voice rough. "I rented a room above a shut-down bar near the canal. Cheap but I told myself it was better than waiting for someone to remember I existed."Eli looked toward the front window."Varek found me at the bar beneath that room. He was beautiful at first, rich enough to make poverty feel chosen. After hearing my story, he said Anton had wasted me, said Rian had taken my place, said Omegas like me were always kept soft so stronger men could decide which wounds mattered."His laugh was small and empty."At first, Varek made me feel chosen. He asked questions no one else asked, remembered every answer. Bought medicine when my old treatment side effects flared, called me his."The Varek I saw was nothing like what Eli said.Eli saw it and smiled without humor. "Yes, there it is. The look of how? Are you sure?""What happened? What did he do?""What men like him do when admiration is no longer enough." Eli's voice thinned. "He m

Chapter 57 - The Black Office

LUCIEN POVI woke to darkness, not night. For several seconds, I did not understand where my body ended and the room. My eyes opened and found almost nothing to hold, black surrounded me in every direction. Then pain arrived. Low, heavy and relentless. I inhaled sharply and tried to move but my arms would not obey. A rough restraint cut across my wrists, binding my hands behind the back of a chair. More restraints held my ankles apart against the chair legs, a broad strap sat above my belly, not pressing directly into it but pinning my upper torso firmly enough, that twisting sent pain all over me.The position left my belly exposed beneath my coat.I panicked. I jerked against the restraints. Pain tore through my shoulder where someone had wrenched my arm in the coffee house, my throat burned from the chemical fabric of the bag. The baby moved and I froze. A slow, heavy shift pressed beneath my belly, low and unmistakable. Alive.Oh thank goodness, I was so scared something h

Chapter 58 - The Uncle's Plan

LUCIEN POVI held myself motionless in the chair, wrists burning against the restraints."We should untie him a little, if the child is expected to survive." Eli said. "The child will survive," Damien said. "That is the point, do you understand?""You are a coward who steals what he cannot earn." I said. Damien laughed softly. "Earn. Such an adorable word, my father loved that word too. Elias Voss believed inheritance should be earned through discipline and sacrifice. Anton played the obedient son beautifully." He moved back toward the desk and set the tumbler down with a gentle click. "I learned early that the world belongs not to the deserving, but to the willing. Those willing to take, willing to ruin a few lives so a greater door opens. Anton called it monstrous, but I called it honesty." "You call murder honesty?" "I call power power." Damien turned, leaning casually against the edge of the black desk. "Families bury ownership under love and I don't like that decoration."

Chapter 59 - The Rescue Mission

RIAN POV A recording arrived on my phone by 4:50pm. I was in the east command room when the alert cut through the security feed. Three screens showed maps of the city. Two displayed intercepted Black Crown traffic. Another held grainy footage from a loading dock where Ilyana had vanished three nights earlier. Guards moved in and out with reports, voices low. Kael stood near the central table, one hand braced over a projected street grid, arguing quietly with a surveillance analyst about vehicle blind spots. I heard none of it after Lucien's emergency channel flashed red. For half a second, the world stopped moving. Then the file opened. Static hissed first. A scrape of fabric. A distant door. Wind. The faint murmur of a coffee machine. Then Lucien's voice. "Why, Eli?" After listening to the record I couldn't say anything because, I had expected anyone to betray me but not Lucien. Why would he go to see Eli without telling me first? And he's pregnant and might go into lab

Chapter 60 - The Rescue

RIAN POV The corridor to the black office was sealed behind three layers of steel, two dead guards, and enough scent blockers to make the air taste like chemicals. The bond dragged me forward with brutal certainty, a burning thread buried beneath concrete and sterilized air. Lucien was close. Too close for distance to soften the pain bleeding through the bond. Every contraction struck me in echoes: pressure, fear, exhaustion, the desperate protective instinct wrapped around our child. Ahead, the final door stood matte and seamless, almost invisible in the black wall. No handle. No visible hinges. A discreet red light blinked beside the access panel. Kael motioned two Task Force operators forward. "Breach." One knelt immediately, pressing a charge along the frame. Another set a disruption spike against the lock. Gunfire echoed behind us where the rest of the unit held the lower corridor against Black Crown security. Every second dragged blood from the rescue. I stood before the d

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